Glee: Sectionals
November 13th 2010 00:59
It’s Sectionals!! The first day they’ve all been waiting for is finally here, and, of course, nothing goes as planned. With Will (Matthew Morrison) already unable to go with them thanks to the whole mattress debacle, Emma (Jayma Mays) steps in to be temporary director, causing major problems with her and Ken (Patrick Gallagher). She assures Will that’s not the case though, and he can’t thank her enough for helping him out and being there for the kids.
When Rachel (Lea Michele) starts to suspect something is up with Puck (Mark Salling) and Quinn (Dianna Agron), the rest of the kids start to panic. If she tells Finn (Cory Monteith) the truth they all know, it’s going to destroy the club, and their chances at winning at Sectionals. On her own, Rachel mentions to Quinn that she might want to have her baby tested for a disease that—oh wait, silly Rachel, they’d only do the tests if one of the parents were Jewish. Quinn has nothing to worry about. Now worried, Quinn tells Puck that he has to take her “to get those Jewish baby tests.” He’s confused. “Is that even a real thing?” She tells him that if something’s wrong with the baby, Terri (Jessalyn Gilsig) isn’t going to want to take it. She can’t take Finn because he’ll know something is up. “Does this have to happen tonight?” Puck asks. “Because I have my fight club.”
“Hey guys.” Will enters the choir room. He tells them that he’s found his replacement. Miss Pillsbury is going to take them to Sectionals. “Now,” he says, “I-I don’t know what the future holds for me, and for us…But I know Saturday you guys will make me proud. You guys will do great. So…goodbye for now.” He starts to leave but Mercedes (Amber Riley) stops him. “Wait, what about our set list?” He can’t help them with it. They’re going to have to come up with this one on their own. He forces a last smile of encouragement. “Alright guys.” He leaves.
The team automatically chooses “Proud Mary” in wheelchairs and “Don’t Stop Believing”, but what about the ballad? Rachel automatically steps up, but frustrated, Mercedes insists that Rachel is always butting in and insisting she’s better than everyone. Emma talks Rachel into letting Mercedes give it a try, and when Mercedes blows “And I Am Telling You” out of the park, Rachel concedes. “You’re amazing Mercedes, and you deserve it. I’m gonna hug you now.” “Okay.” They hug. They have their ballad.
At his locker, Finn admits that he’s pumped about Sectionals. He believes that winning could finally make everything good for a while. When he notices Rachel’s hesitation, he asks her what’s up, and she tells him that she has to tell him something.
Back in the choir room, everyone stands around in shock as Finn lays into Puck beating him up on the floor. Will rushes in to break up the fight as Emma covers her mouth as shocked as the kids. “Come on, come on, get off-knock it off!” Will pulls Finn off Puck, keeping himself between them as Mike (Harry Shum Jr.) and Matt (Dijon Talton) hold Finn back.
“Tell the truth!” Finn shouts at Puck, still trying to get at him. “Punk just walked in and sucker-punched me,” Puck tells Mr. Schue, and Finn shouts, “Don’t play dumb, you’re too freakin’ dumb to play dumb!” As Mike, Matt, and Will continue to hold Finn back, Quinn steps up, tearfully asking, “Who told you this, Finn?” “It was Rachel,” Kurt (Chris Colfer) answers, and Rachel denies it about the same time Finn says that it was Rachel. “But I want to hear it from you,” he tells Finn and Puck, “I want to hear it from both of you.” Will tries to get him to calm down, but Finn angrily shouts, “No, they’re both lyin’ to me!” He looks at his friends. “Is it true? Just tell me, is it true?” Crying, Quinn steps up to him and whispers, “Yes…Puck is the father.” Shocked, furious, and hurt, Finn tells her that he’s done with her. Near tears, he shouts, “I’m done with all of you!” and storms out, kicking a chair on his way out. Rachel looks around. She didn’t mean for it to happen like this.
Finding Quinn alone in the hall later on, Rachel tells her she’s really sorry. She fully understands if Quinn wants to beat her up. Quinn’s not mad at her. Rachel just did what she was afraid to do. Reflecting on how many people she’s hurt, Quinn asks Rachel to leave. Puck comes over and tells Quinn he wants to be with her, that he’ll do everything he can to be a good dad. Quinn tells him she wants to do this on her own. “I know you don’t understand, but please respect it.” She gets up and leaves.
Artie (Kevin McHale) is lifted into the bus and Will turns to Emma. “So, the competition starts at eleven.”
“Right.”
“I’ll have my cell phone on.”
“You already told me. Four times. And you wrote it down.”
Jacob (Josh Sussman) rushes up to the bus reporting as their 12 member. He can’t sing, but that’s ok. He just needs to sway in the back and not sing. Ok, good. He gets on the bus. Will thanks Emma again, and she gets on the bus with the kids. They all watch as Mr. Schue closes the door. They’re off to Sectionals without him.
All signed in at Sectionals, Emma tells them that they’re going last. Rachel assures them that that’s okay. If they’re last they’ll be the freshest in the judge’s mind. They all decide they just need to be positive here.
That positive vibe doesn’t last long. When the Jane Adams girls sing the ballad Mercedes was going to do, AND “Proud Mary”…in wheelchairs!, and then the school for the deaf kids sing “Don’t Stop Believing”, the kids start to panic. They’ll never win.
Emma quickly calls will. “We’ve got a problem, they’re doing all our numbers. The kids are completely freaking out, Artie keeps ramming himself into the wall,” and she’s pretty sure Jacob just wet himself.
“I knew it!” Will answers back at the school. “Sue leaked our set lists.”
“Will,” she says desperately, “Will, these kids need a leader right now.”
He thinks a second, then answers, “Just hold tight. I know what to do.” When he hangs up, he spots Sue walking down the hallway and rushes after her. “Sue!” he calls out, she stops. “What kind of teacher are you?” She says she was just stopping by to feed her Venus fly trap, and when he accuses her of leaking their set list, she calls it a “libelous accusation” and suggests he take it back immediately. “You have no proof.”
“No proof?” he asks, exasperated. “You were the only other person who had the list!”
“But other than that, you have no proof.” She tells him it’s time to face the facts. At one this afternoon, his club will be over, and she will have won. Will stands up to her, telling her that he’s not going to just sit idly by anymore. “I’m going to expose you for the fraud you have become.”
“Bring it on, William. I am reasonably confident you’ll be adding revenge to the long list of things you’re no good at. Right next to being married—“
“Don’t—“
“And running a high school Glee Club. And finding a hairstyle that doesn’t make you look like a lesbian. Love you like a sista,” ‘she mocks, kissing her first two fingers and pressing them to his lips.
“Get your hands off me.”
She shoves him. “You’re not gonna push a woman, are you?” No, he’s not. “I didn’t think so.” With a victory fist pump, Sue heads off down the hallway.
Finding Finn in the locker room cleaning out his football gear, Will tells them that he’s heard from the club. “It’s pretty bad. I can’t be there…” he adds, and Finn argues, “And I can? I can’t even be in the same room with her without crying like a girl—I can’t be in the same room with him without wanting to punch his face off.”
“I don’t have any more pep talks Finn,” Will tells him. “You know I know how you feel. All I know is that, between you and me? I don’t think that they can win without you.” Finn is frustrated. It’s not fair, why does he always have to be the bigger man?
“Because sometimes,” Will tells him, sitting down on one of the benches. “Being special…sucks.” Finn tells him that he just wants it to be like it all never happened.
“Well Finn,” Will answers, setting his keys down. “You can’t always get what you want.” He gets up to leave, and Finn notices the keys still sitting there. “Oh Mr. Schue, you forgot your keys.”
“No I didn’t.” Will walks out.
As the rival choir directors share in celebratory pretzels, Miss Hitchens admits that she doesn’t really feel like celebrating. “Why not?” Mr. Rumba asks. “One of us is gonna take this thing.”
“Hi,” Emma says, appearing behind them. “Nice set list. Of course I haven’t heard your deaf kids perform yet, but I hear you’re doing “Don’t Stop Believing”.
“Um, who are you?”
She introduces herself and adds, “You should be ashamed, aren’t you ashamed? You’re educators. Actually, you know what? No you’re more than that. You take care of disadvantaged kids, and you’re teaching them that the only way they can compete in this world is by cheating, I’m sorry, but what kind of message is that?” Mr. Rumba argues that he has no idea what she’s talking about. “Don’t Stop Believing” is the number one song in the history of iTunes downloads. Right. “And “Proud Mary”?” Emma asks. “In wheelchairs?” Miss Hitchens tells her that winning will make her girls feel like they’re worth something. “I-I’m sorry,” Emma asks, not letting them walk away. Don’t they think the kids will think something’s up? “That you just magically came up with two new numbers just days before competition?”
Neither choir director admits it. Mr. Rumba accuses her of “deaf racism. Shame on you!”
“No, you know what the real shame is?” Emma asks. “Is that maybe if you just believed in them just a little bit more they would have been amazing up there. Without cheating.” She leaves.
The deaf choir goes, bringing tears to the audience’s eyes, and Rachel can’t take it anymore. She calls an emergency meeting. They accuse Brittnay (Heather Morris)and Santana (Naya Rivera)of leaking the set list, and Santana denies it. Brittnay admits giving Sue the list, but she had no idea what she was going to do with it. Santana admits that she actually likes being in Glee Club (but she will deny it if anyone ever tells anyone else). “It’s the best part of my day, okay?” she says curtly. “I wasn’t gonna go and mess it up.” Rachel believes her.
Okay, they have to go on in an hour, they need a plan. “Let’s start with the ballad.” She asks Mercedes if she has any other song she can sing, and Mercedes tells Rachel that she should sing it. Kurt agrees, as much as it hurts him. Well, Rachel has been working on something since she was four…Okay, ballad done. They can close with “Don’t Stop Believing.”
“Yeah, that and a can of soup will guarantee us third place,” Puck says sarcastically, and points out they still need a song they can all sing together.
“I have one.” Finn appears, telling them that he found the sheet music online, used the Cheerios copier to make copies (then he trashed it), and Mike, Matt, and Brittnay can come up with choreography. Rachel welcomes him back. Puck holds out his hand. “We cool dude?” Finn stares at him. “No.” He completely ignores Quinn and tells Rachel it’s all up to her now. Now’s her chance to be a star. “Don’t screw it up.”
“Are they nervous, has it started?” Will asks Emma nervously over the phone. Showtime.
Rachel pulls back the curtains and begins “Don’t Rain On My Parade”. She sings down the aisle, introducing the rest of her group. The crowd loves them. Will listens like a proud father as his kids sing their hearts out. He smiles tearfully when he hears Finn start “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” and beams as Emma holds up the phone for the rest of their performance. They end with “Don’t Stop Believing”. The crowd cheers.
The judges convene. 5th Runner-Up Miss Ohio 2006 can’t figure out how deaf kids got into a singing competition, Rod (yes, as in Sue’s Rod) really liked the Jane Adams kids, and Donna Landries, Ohio Vice Comptroller and State paid cynic, has no idea what she’s even doing there. She’s never even heard the words “show choir” until about three hours ago when her boss ran off to Nascar and she had to “fill in at this fool event”. She hated the Jane Adams kids. She doesn’t pay her taxes so they can “parade their behinds around like a bunch of hoochie mamas”. Runner-Up Miss Ohio liked New Directions, “but they didn’t seem all that rehearsed.” Rod does have a soft spot for the Rolling Stones…Donna has no idea what they’re talking about. “I have never been so bored! I mean, if I had to pick a group that I hated the least—“
Outside, New Directions hover by the door. It doesn’t sound good. Miss Hitchens comes up. They have nothing to say to her. “Because we cheated,” she answers. “I know.” She’s there to set the record straight. But it’s too late, the judges come out. They’ve already made their decisions.
At home, Will finishes getting ready for Emma and Ken’s wedding. As he’s putting on his shoes, Terri walks in and stops. “Hi.” “I thought you worked on Saturday afternoon.” She tells him she came home early. She hasn’t been sleeping very well. She asks about the monkey suit, and he tells her that he’s getting ready for the wedding. When he pulls out his tie and she starts forward to help it with him, he stops her with, “I’m fine.” She backs off. She tells him she’s been seeing a therapist. “Good. I hope it works out for you.” He starts to leave and she stops him, telling him that she knows she lets her anxiety run her life, and that she wants so many things she knows they’re never going to have, but “that was okay as long as I still had you.” She cups his face. He doesn’t answer. “Say something.”
“I’m looking at you,” he says softly, “and I’m trying…I mean, I really want to feel that thing I always felt when I looked at you before. That feeling of family, of love…but that’s gone.”
Her hands drop. “Forever?”
“I don’t know.”
Will leaves and finds the reception hall that Ken and Emma rented full of hockey ice sculptures, wedding decorations, a congratulations banner, and…Emma. Sitting alone at the table. No one else is there, including the groom.
“Where’s Ken?” Will asks, his present in his hand.
“Um, home, I’d imagine,” Emma answers softly. “Probably trying to regain some of the pride that I stole from him.” She tells him that choosing Sectionals over him was the last straw for Ken.
“But I thought that you understood that you were doing this for the kids,” Will answers honestly, sitting down next to her.
“He understood that…I wasn’t doing it for the kids.” She looks at him. “I was doing it for you.”
“Emma…I’m so sorry,” Will says earnestly, but she tells him it wasn’t his fault, she’s the one who really messed up this time.
“He was absolutely right,” she admits. “I was settling for him…Really, one blink from you Will and I would have been out the door.” He swallows hard, and tearfully, she adds, “So um, I e-mailed my resignation to Figgins. My last day is Monday. I just can’t—“ she stands up, starting to cry, “I just can’t be at that school, I can’t see Ken without feeling ashamed, and I can’t see you without feeling heartbroken.” Her voice catches and she starts to leave. He catches her arm.
“I just left my wife,” he says softly, and after a long moment, she tells him she’s sorry, but she has to go. She starts to leave again, and he again says, “But I just—“
“You just left your wife,” she says gently. “Exactly. You JUST did.” She smiles sadly and heads for the door.
“You make a beautiful bride,” he tells her, voice catching, and she turns around, softly answering, “Thank you.” Emma leaves. Will watches her go.
In Principal Figgins’s office, Sue and Will sit as Figgins tells Sue that the directors of the two other Glee Clubs told him that she gave them Will’s set list.
“You have no proof,” Sue insists.
“The set lists were on Cheerios letterhead.”
“I didn’t do it.”
“They say ‘From the desk of Sue Sylvester’.”
“Circumstantial evidence.”
“They’re written in your handwriting.”
“Forgeries.”
“Sue,” Figgins argues, “there is an orgy of evidence stacked against you!”
“Well, you’ve clearly made up your mind not to be impartial in this case,” she answers, unphased, telling him that they should wrap this little thing up so she can get back to work. She gets up.
“Sue! Sit down,” Figgins demands. She turns back, not sitting. “Sue, as of today, you are no longer the coach of the Cheerios.”
She leans forward, sure she’s heard wrong. “I beg your pardon?”
Even Will is surprised.
“Sue, as of today, you are no longer the coach of the Cheerios.”
“I beg your pardon!”
“All this time—“
“I beg your pardon!”
Figgins tells her that all this time he thought Will was just overreacting, and quite frankly he was willing to overlook it because she kept winning, but this time she’s gone too far. “You have embarrassed yourself and besmirched the name of William McKinley.”
“A failed President!” Sue shouts.
“Oh please, the greatest one we have left,” Figgins says with an eye roll, suspending her. “Schue?” he asks, turning to Will, “you have anything to add.”
For once, Will has finally won. “I think you’ve said it all.”
“My word is official.” Figgins slaps his desk. “Let it be written.”
“Okay, if this is the way you want to play it.” Sue points at Figgins warningly, and leaves.
Will gets up to leave, and Figgins stops him. “In light of Sue’s interference, I’m reinstating you as coach of the Glee Club.” He contacted the Ohio Showchoir board and set the record straight.
“Thank you, sir.” Will shakes his hand.
“My pleasure.”
“Good job,” Will tells him on his way out and Figgins is proud of himself. Finally a success.
Smiling to himself, Will starts down the hall, but is stopped by Sue. “Schuester.” He sighs, he saw this coming. Sue tells him that this isn’t over. “Well played, sir. I underestimated you.” She’s heading down to her condo for a while, “brown up a bit, get myself into fighting shape. Then I’m gonna return to this school even more hell-bent on your destruction. Get ready for the ride of your life Will Schuester. You are about to board the Sue Sylvester Express. Destination? Horror!”
“I look forward to it,” he says, trying not to smile.
“You know you just woke a sleeping giant. Prepare to be crushed.” Sue leaves. Will just shakes his head.
Back in the choir room, the kids have a few things they’d like to show Mr. Schue. First…they part revealing their first place trophy. He’s so proud of them. The judges were unanimous and didn’t even know about all the drama going on behind the scenes. “You earned this,” he tells his kids. But it’s not over yet, they still have Regionals. “And you can bet Vocal Adrenaline is hard at work, so we should be too. So, let’s get started!”
Hold on a second, they have something else they want to show him. “Since you weren’t able to be there to see us perform, we put together a special number just for you,” Rachel tells him and Finn sits him down in a chair to watch their performance of “My Life Would Suck Without You,” in which they include choreography of all their numbers they’ve performed together.
'Cause we belong together now, yeah
Forever united here somehow, yeah
You got a piece of me
And honestly,
My life (my life) would suck (would suck) without you!
Inspired by their song, Will rushes to Emma’s office. It’s empty. He leaves, and spots her at the end of the hallway. Relieved he caught her before she left, he runs up to her, taking her moving box and setting it down on the floor. She starts to open her mouth to speak, but he shakes his head, stopping her with a finger. Suddenly, Will kisses Emma.
Emma is totally taken off guard at first then leans into the kiss. They break apart, both staring hopefully at each other. Wide-eyed, Emma smiles, still not believing what just happened. Will laughs softly. She lets out a breath.
Cut to black.
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